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Keeping Up with the CRC
Two items of note for the Columbia River Crossing: 1) The City of Vancouver is soliciting qualifications for designers to “help refine a vision and concept for the new open space under the proposed Columbia River Crossing alignment.” 2) Metro Councilor Liberty’s alternatives panel is next Tuesday, and we’re happy to point you to the…
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Streetcar to Hibernate
The Streetcar is going on vacation! From Sept 13th to 26th, while we build the connection between the existing streetcar tracks in the Pearl to the new tracks coming over the Broadway Bridge, the streetcar will not operate. The problem is there is nowhere to turn around at the north end of the alignment. This…
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Rapprochement
For the last 18 months or so, Congressman James Oberstar, chair of the House Transportation Committee and our own Peter DeFazio, chair of the surface transportation subcommittee have been beating up on the White House to get going on the every-six-years transportation reauthorization. But the President has had other priorities and the result was a…
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Front-loading the Re-authorization
The president’s Labor Day stumping included pushing for ‘front-loading’ the transportation re-authorization with $50B in up-front funding. T4America is rushing to support the idea, but I’d be happy if the rhetoric were a little less road-centric. Yes, transit and HSR are called out, but the lead is still roads, roads, roads. Any I saw nary…
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More Than a Pothole, Less Than a Street
Via the SW Trails list serve: Five PSU graduate students organized as Larke Planning created a report detailing potential options for taking unimproved streets in the City of Portland and upgrading them in ways that are potentially very creative and useful, but less expensive than building a complete street up to City standards. Well worth…